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From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Knudsen. A bird labeled "Czechoslovakia" is trying to fly, but a man's hand has caught hold of the bird's tail feathers and is preventing flight. The sleeve of the man is labeled "USSR."...

From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Jon Kennedy. A zoo keeper wearing coveralls labeled "92nd Congress" and carrying a lunchbox walks briskly away from his work when he sees the time on his pocket watch. He had been near the open...

From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Stampone. Richard Nixon holds a briefcase in one hand and a bird cage in the other. The briefcase is labeled "Guam meeting with Thieu." A label attached to the handle of the cage reads,...

From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection; Cartoon by Ed Valtman. A hippopotamus with the long ears and brush tail of a donkey and labeled "94th Democratic Congress" stands in a large, round circus or zoo cage with its mouth wide open. It is...

A collection of interviews with African-Americans of the Mississippi Gulf Coast, circa twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, who knew Colonel John Robinson, an African-American pilot who was tapped by Ethiopian Emperor Haile Sellassie in the...

From the McGuffey's Reading Charts. A chart intended to teach students how to read the English language. Lesson 17: Rose has a bird in a cage. She can hear him sing. Rose! let him sing a sweet song to me. Lesson VIII is on the reverse side.

Oral history.; Interview conducted April 19, 2002, in the McCarley home in Port Gibson, Mississippi. McCarley was born October 19, 1919 in Port Gibson. She discusses growing up, sharecropping and tenancy, her education at Port Gibson High School...

Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on August 20, 1997 and August 28, 1997 with Peter H. Stewart (born 1934). He began teaching school in Edwards, Mississippi, in the fall of 1961. In August 1969, he worked for Friends of Children, a Head Start...

Oral history.; Two interviews conducted on July 8 and 23, 1980 with the Reverend Clay F. Lee at his study in Jackson, Mississippi. Lee was born on March 3, 1930 in Laurel, Mississippi. After graduating with his undergraduate degree from Millsaps...

Oral history.; An interview conducted on February 19, 2009 with John Dubuisson, Chief of Police in Pass Christian, Mississipi. Mr. Dubuisson discusses his experiences during and after Hurricane Katrina.

Oral history.; An interview conducted on February 19, 2009 with George Bass, Chief of Long Beach Fire Department. He talks about losing his home and his other experiences in Long Beach during and after Hurricane Katrina.

Oral history.; An interview conducted on May 19, 2008 with Laura Clare Thompson Creel. A life-long resident of Biloxi, Mrs. Creel recounts her family history and experience dealing with hurricanes, including Hurricane Katrina.

Fifteen-page typescript of a journal kept by Sandra Adickes during her stay in Hattiesburg, Mississippi, as a volunteer in the Mississippi Freedom Summer Project of 1964. The journal is dated July 10 - August 20, 1964. Adickes discusses her work as...

From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by John Knudsen. A giant hand suspends a birdcage over a curved chessboard (curve denotes the Earth). The cuff just behind the hand bears a hammer and sickle symbol. Standing inside the cage is a...

From the AAEC Editorial Cartoon Collection. Cartoon by Eldon Pletcher. In the center of the cartoon is a large wooden cage on wheels with bars on one side. The cage is labeled, "Audubon Park" and holds a lion. Two men on either side of the cage are...